I've suggested (& published in 18 journal papers) a new theory called quantised inertia (or MiHsC) that assumes that inertia is caused by relativistic horizons damping quantum fields. It predicts galaxy rotation, cosmic acceleration & the emdrive without any dark stuff or adjustment.My Plymouth University webpage is here, I've written a book called Physics from the Edge and I'm on twitter as @memcculloch

Wednesday, 19 March 2014

An abstract for NAM2014

I've just submitted the following abstract to the organiser of the cosmology section of the UK's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM2014). I hope he chooses it! (they didn't)Title: A toy cosmology from a Hubble-scale Casimir effect.

A new cosmological model is presented here. The model proposes that
inertia is caused as follows: as an object accelerates, for example, to the
right, a Rindler horizon forms to its left allowing fewer Unruh wavelengths to
exist between the object and the horizon. This can be thought of as a
Rindler-scale Casimir effect or as ‘horizon wave censorship’ in which partial
waves would provide information from behind the horizon so cannot be allowed.
This effect suppresses Unruh radiation on the left side of the object causing a
net radiative force that opposes its acceleration, predicting the standard
inertial mass. In this model, very long wavelengths of Unruh radiation are also
suppressed in the same way by a Hubble-scale Casimir effect (or a Hubble-scale
censorship) causing a new detectable effect: a loss of inertia at very low
accelerations. This effect predicts the cosmic acceleration, and galaxy rotation
without dark matter, both without any adjustable parameters. The same model applied
to Hawking radiation from the Hubble edge predicts the visible gravitational
mass of the cosmos, that this mass increases as it expands, and that it had a
hot start: a Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB). This model also predicts a
suppression of variation on the largest scales in agreement with the low-l CMB
anomaly recently seen by the Planck satellite. This cosmological model is
preliminary, but is directly testable and a laboratory experiment will be
proposed.Reference: McCulloch, M.E., 2014. A toy cosmology using a Hubble-scale Casimir effect. Galaxies, 2, 81-88. link